Title
Sam Phillips : the man who invented rock 'n' roll / Peter Guralnick.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780316042741 (hardcover)
0316042749 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
xvii, 763 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
ML429.P54 G87 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
781.66092 B
Summary
The author of Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that Phillips shaped in his tiny Memphis studio, with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ike Turner, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices unabashedly proclaiming the primacy of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical world. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over the author's 25-year acquaintance with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, this book gives us an ardent, intimate, and unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Edison.--Adapted from book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-724) and index.
"I dare you!" : 1923-1942
Radio romance : 1942-1950
The price of freedom : January 1950-June 1951
"Where the soul of man never dies" : June 1951-October 1952
Perfect imperfection : June 1952-July 1953
Prisoner's dream : July 1953-February 1955
Spiritual awakenings : January 1955-December 1956
I'll sail my ship alone : 1957-1961
"They'll carry you to the cliff and shove you off" : 1979-1961-1979
How lucky can one man get : 1980-2003.
